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   The FBI announced Friday that it had severed ties with the Southern   
   Poverty Law Center, a civil rights watchdog group, after a push from MAGA   
   allies on social media.   
      
   Elon Musk called the group — a liberal-leaning organization that has for   
   years tracked hate groups and provided law enforcement with information   
   about them — “an evil organization that spreads hate propaganda   
   relentlessly” and accused it of “incitement to murder Charlie Kirk” in a   
   series of Thursday social media posts.   
      
   “The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and   
   turned into a partisan smear machine,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X.   
   “Their so-called ‘hate map’ has been used to defame mainstream Americans   
   and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for   
   any FBI partnership.”   
      
   Patel also cited an administration-wide push to combat “anti-Christian   
   bias” in his decision to terminate the FBI’s affiliation with the SPLC.   
      
   Conservative allies of President Donald Trump — including Musk and Turning   
   Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet — had previously called on the   
   administration to disaffiliate from the SPLC, citing its “Hate Map” — a   
   25-year-old interactive initiative that displays organizations classified   
   by the SPLC as hate groups.   
      
   The map still lists conservative group Turning Point USA, which Kirk co-   
   founded, under the designation “Antigovernment General.” Per the SPLC’s   
   website, the organization defines anti-government groups as “part of the   
   antidemocratic hard-right movement.”   
      
   “For decades, we have shared data and analysis with the public to protect   
   civil rights and hold extremists accountable,” the SPLC said in a   
   statement. “We remain committed to exposing hate and extremism as we work   
   to equip communities with knowledge and defend the rights and safety of   
   marginalized people.”   
      
   The decision comes two days after the FBI severed ties with another civil   
   rights group — the Anti-Defamation League, a pro-Israel organization that   
   tracks antisemitism and other extremism — which had previously conducted   
   mandatory workshops on hate crimes, violent extremism and antisemitism for   
   new FBI agents and trainees at the agency’s Virginia academy.   
      
   https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/03/fbi-southern-poverty-law-center-   
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